A Language of Its Own: Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music

by RKatz (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2010

  $91.55

  The Western musical tradition has produced not only music, but also countless writings about music that remain in continuous - and enormously influential - dialogue with their subject. This book argues that the indispensable relationship between intellectual production and musical creation gave rise to the Western conception of music.